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4 avril 2016 1 04 /04 /avril /2016 02:34

Comment comprendre la présence de l’EI dans le sud de la Syrie

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Grâce aux « moubaya'a » secrètes, l'État islamique peut se passer d'une conquête territoriale coûteuse, tout en affirmant son emprise à l'échelle microlocale et sans détenir de territoires.

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La défaite significative du groupe État islamique (EI) à Palmyre, avec l'espoir pour le régime syrien de reconquérir d'autres régions, dont Deraa au sud, Deir ez-Zor et Raqqa à l'est, où se trouve l'un des principaux commandements de l'EI, tend à faire oublier une autre réalité de terrain moins perceptible : la présence plus discrète, mais néanmoins affirmée, de l'organisation radicale dans le sud de la Syrie. En développant une stratégie de noyautage pour infiltrer des groupes ou sous-groupes concurrents grâce aux allégeances secrètes, l'EI a progressivement établi son autorité dans des zones pourtant soustraites à son influence.

De récents conflits entre forces locales à Bir al-Qassab (entre Soueida et Bosra dans le sud de la Syrie) ont révélé le ralliement des tribus à l'EI, sans rattachement officiel et institutionnel ni présence physique d'une direction du groupe. Les moubaya'a (serments d'allégeance) secrètes s'inscrivent dans la doctrine de la taqiya wal ketman (la dissimulation et l'occultation, sans reconnaissance formelle), ce qui permet à l'EI d'affirmer son autorité dans des localités où il ne dispose pas d'ancrage territorial suffisant, ni de ressources d'organisation et de contrôle de l'espace.

Officiellement, les groupes affiliés secrètement à l'EI conservent donc leur nom et leurs étendards idéologiques, ce qui les rend difficilement identifiables. Leur allégeance ne se révèle que lors d'affrontements avec d'autres groupes armés et par la posture qui consiste à refuser de nouer des alliances avec d'autres forces locales pour faire front commun, ou de se battre contre l'EI.

(Lire aussi : Palmyre : une victoire militaire, symbolique et politique pour Assad, mais...)

Sokhné vs Palmyre en 2015
Ainsi, le groupe Harakat al-Mouthanna, qui faisait partie du Front sud – l'opposition militaire, soutenue par Riyad –, a explicitement admis le ralliement de groupes armés à l'organisation État islamique. Des informations obtenues sur le terrain tendent à confirmer que Attiyé Schéhadé Awad, l'un des précédents chefs de Liwaa Chabab al-Sunna, autre groupe de la coalition militaire du Front sud, avait également fait allégeance secrète à l'EI. D'autres groupes ont, par leur refus systématique de faire alliance avec des forces opposés à l'EI sur le terrain, éveillé les soupçons sur une probable affiliation au groupe (comme Liwaa Chouhada al-Yarmouk, qui occupe une bande frontalière stratégique de 40 km établissant une jonction entre la Syrie, la Jordanie et le Golan, et conserve son autonomie locale). Jabhat Thouar Sourya, avec à sa tête Oussama Joulani, s'est également illustré par son refus persistant d'engager des opérations contre les combattants de l'EI.

Dans cette configuration, l'organisation peut se passer d'une conquête territoriale coûteuse, au cours de laquelle elle est amenée à éliminer les autorités concurrentes, tout en affirmant son emprise à l'échelle microlocale, sans détenir de territoires. Tout cela en brisant simplement les allégeances entre de petits groupes d'opposition fragmentés et en les contrôlant de facto. La prise de Palmyre par l'EI, en mai 2015, illustre avec force l'efficience du ralliement des composantes tribales locales ou des groupes armés dans la stratégie de conquête territoriale de l'EI. Les rivalités historiques et le conflit larvé entre Palmyre et Sokhné avaient conduit les tribus de la localité de Sokhné à faire serment d'allégeance à l'EI et à prendre la ville au nom de l'organisation. Laquelle, en contrepartie d'une aide financière et militaire répondant aux besoins locaux, a revendiqué sa souveraineté territoriale sur Palmyre après l'arrêt des combats.

Dans le Sud, l'absence de reconnaissance officielle de ces allégeances rend difficile l'évaluation des forces supplétives de l'organisation et de leurs capacités offensives. Cette nouvelle configuration pourrait, le cas échéant, se révéler menaçante pour la stabilité et la sécurité de la Jordanie.

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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (17– 23 March 2016)

March 24, 2016

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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

(17 – 23 March 2016)

Jerusalem – Israeli Forces Demolish Commercial Store Belonging to Khader Ebeidat in al-Mukaber Mount.

  • Israeli forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
  • 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed in the West Bank.
  • 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • Israeli forces continued to target the border areas along the Gaza Strip, due to which, a shepherd was wounded.
  • Israeli forces conducted 69 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones in the southern Gaza Strip.
  • 61 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a woman, were arrested. Thirty of them, including 2 children and the woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
  • Israeli forces raided the Zakat Committee office in Qabatya and the Arab American University in Jenin.
  • Israeli forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
  • Israeli forces suspended the financial allocations (national insurance) of 3 Palestinian prisoners, whom were accused of the killing of a settler.
  • 2 underconstruction houses were demolished by Israeli forces and a family was obliged to self-demolish its house.
  • Settlement activities continued in the West Bank.
  • 6 commercial stores in the central market in Beita village, south of Nablus, were demolished.
  • The house of the only eyewitness to the arson attack against Dawabsha family in Douma village, southeast of Nablus, caught fire too.
  • Israeli forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
  • Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 9th
  • Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
  • 5 Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints.
  • Israeli forces closed Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, north of the Gaza Strip, for Jewish Holidays.

Summary

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (17 – 23 March 2016).

Shooting:

Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have also continued to use excessive force against Palestinian civilians participating in peaceful protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the majority of whom were youngsters. During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank and 4 others in the Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child. Two of them were killed at “Ariel” settlement intersection, north of Salfit; one was killed at “Gosh Etzion” settlement intersection, south of Bethlehem; while the child was killed at Abu al-Reesh military checkpoint in the centre of Hebron.

Killings committed by Israeli forces in the West Bank were as follows:

On 17 March 2016, Israeli forces opened fire at Ali Taqatqah (19) and Ali Thawabtah (20), both from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, who were present at “Ariel” settlement intersection, north of Salfit. As a result, they were immediately killed for alleged stabbing attack against a female settler in that area.

On 18 March 2016, Israeli forces deployed at “Gosh Etzion” settlement intersection, south of Bethlehem, killed Mahmoud Abu Fanouna (21), from Khellet al-Nafisah area, southeast of Hebron. The aforementioned person sustained several bullet wounds and was left bleeding to death for over an hour without being offered first aid. He was then transported by an Israeli military ambulance to an unknown destination. Israeli forces claimed that he attempted to carry out a stabbing.

On 19 March 2016, Israeli forces stationed at Abu al-Reesh military checkpoint at the western entrance to al-Shuhada Street, in central Hebron, killed Abdullah Ajlouni (16), from Jabal Johar area, south of the city. The child was left bleeding to death. Israeli forces claimed that the child was holding a knife and tried to attack an Israeli border Guard officer at the checkpoint. The family stated that their son had been shot with other 20 live bullets throughout his body.

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces wounded 4 Palestinian civilians; 3 of whom had participated in peaceful protests near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel and the 4th was wounded when Israeli forces opened fire at the border area.

In the context of targeting border areas along the Gaza Strip, on 18 March 2016, Israeli forces stationed behind a sand barrier at the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, opened fire at Wasim al-‘Emour (18), who was grazing the sheep to the west of the said fence. As a result, he sustained a bullet wound to the left leg and was then taken to the European Gaza Hospital in the city. His wound was moderate.

As part of shooting incidents against peaceful protests, on 18 March 2016, Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian youngsters, who headed towards the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. The Palestinian youngsters threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed at the border fence; as a result, 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded.

In the context of targeting Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip sea, on 19 March 2016, Israeli gunboats stationed off Khan Yunis shore, south of the Gaza Strip, opened fire sporadically at Palestinian fishing boats for over an hour. As a result, the fishermen were frightened and sailed back towards the shore, but no casualties were reported.

Incursions:

During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 79 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 7 ones in occupied East Jerusalem and its suburbs. During these incursions, Israeli forces arrested at least 61 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a woman. Thirty of them, including 2 children and the woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.

As part of the collective punishment measures taken against Palestinians carrying out attacks against Israelis, on 17 March 2016, Israeli forces moved into al-Jildah area in Hebron. They raided groceries, in which Ameer Jo’ba and Qasem Abu Ouda used to work before they were killed by Israeli forces on 14 March 2016 for a shooting attack at “Givat Kharsina” settlement, east of the city. Israeli forces destroyed the doors and then welded them. They then fixed military order shutting the stores down.

During the reporting period, Israeli forces raided the Arab American University’s campus in al-Zababda village, southeast of Jenin. They then raided the building of the Student Affairs and searched the offices of the student blocs. Moreover, Israeli soldiers confiscated some flags and posters. In addition, Israeli forces raided the central Zakat Committee in Qabatya village, southeast of Jenin. They destroyed the main gate and confiscated a PC set, a number of printers and some documents relevant to bank accounts and names of families receiving aid from the Committee.

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces carried out 3 limited incursions in the north and center of the Gaza Strip. On 21 March 2016, Israeli forces moved about 100 meters to the east of al-Ahmar area, east of Beit Hanoun village, north of the Gaza Strip. On 22 March 2016, they moved about 200 meters into Boret Abu Samrah, north of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. Besides, on the same day, Israeli military bulldozers moved about 150 meters into the east of al-Salqa Valley, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. They levelled lands along the border fence and redeployed later.

Restrictions on movement:

Israel continued to impose a tight closure of the oPt, imposing severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

The illegal closure of the Gaza Strip, which has been steadily tightened since June 2007 has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli authorities impose measures to undermine the freedom of trade, including the basic needs for the Gaza Strip population and the agricultural and industrial products to be exported. For 9 consecutive years, Israel has tightened the land and naval closure to isolate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and other countries around the world. This resulted in grave violations of the economic, social and cultural rights and a deterioration of living conditions for 1.8 million people. The Israeli authorities have established Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shaloum) as the sole crossing for imports and exports in order to exercise its control over the Gaza Strip’s economy. They also aim at imposing a complete ban on the Gaza Strip’s exports. The Israeli closure raised the rate of poverty to 38.8%, 21.1% of which suffer from extreme poverty. Moreover, the rate of unemployment increased up to 44%, which reflects the unprecedented economic deterioration in the Gaza Strip.

Jewish Majority:

In the context of collective punishment measures, on 17 March 2016, 3 families from Sour Baher village, southeast of Jerusalem, received official letters from the Israeli National Insurance Institute informing them that national insurance allocations for their imprisoned sons were suspended. In last January, the Israeli Minister of Interior decided to withdraw the Israeli IDs from the 3 Palestinians, whom were accused by Israeli forces of the killing of a settler by throwing stones at his car in September 2015. It should be noted that the Israeli Home Front Command had issued a decision in February to close and confiscate the houses of the 3 prisoners’ families.

As part of house demolitions, on 21 March 2016, Israeli municipality bulldozers demolished the foundation of a building belonging to Sohaib Ja’abees in al-Mukaber Mount village, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of non-licensing.

On the same day, Abu Qalbain family was obliged to self-demolish its house in Ras al-Amoud neighbourhood, east of Jerusalem’s Old City, upon an order from the Israeli municipality. Asem Abu Qalbain said that the abovementioned house had been still under-construction.

In the same context, Israeli municipality bulldozers demolished on the same day also a house belonging to Ali Abu Soy in Ras al-Amoud neighbourhood, east of Jerusalem’s Old City without warning. The family said it was surprised by the demolition of their under-construction house.

Settlement activities:

On 17 March 2016, Israeli bulldozers demolished 6 commercial stores built of tin plates and a toilet that were located at the western entrance to Beita vllage, south of Nablus. Israeli forces surrounded the central market, after which, the bulldozers started demolitions under the pretext of non-licensing.

Concerning settler attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property, on 20 March 2016, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the bedroom of Ibrahim Dawabsha (23) in Douma village, southeast of Nablu, while he and his wife Yaqin Dawabsha (20) were asleep. Their house is close to the house of Sa’d Dawabsha, whom along with his wife and baby were killed due to an arson attack by settlers on 31 July 2015. As a result, the house was set on fire and Ibrahim and his wife suffered smoke inhalation before they could get out of the house. A finger is pointed at the settlers regarding this arson attack, because Ibrahim is the only eyewitness of the previous arson against Dawabsha family.

On Tuesday, 22 March 2016, a group of settlers from “Yitzhar” settlement, south of Burin village, south of Nablus, attacked Ayman Soufan (34) with sticks and stones, due to which he fainted. Soufan was taken to Rafidya hospital in Nablus to receive medical treatment. Doctors said that he sustained bruises throughout his body.

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Recommendations to the International Community

PCHR emphasizes the international community’s position that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are still under Israeli occupation, in spite of Israeli military redeployment outside the Gaza Strip in 2005. PCHR further confirms that Israeli forces continued to impose collective punishment measures on the Gaza Strip, which have escalated since the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, in which Hamas won the majority of seats of the Palestinian Legislative Council. PCHR stresses that there is international recognition of Israel’s obligation to respect international human rights instruments and the international humanitarian law, especially the Hague Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land and the Geneva Conventions. Israel is bound to apply the international human rights law and the law of war sometime reciprocally and other times in parallel in a way that achieves the best protection for civilians and remedy for victims.

In light of continued arbitrary measures, land confiscation and settlement activities in the West Bank, and the latest 51-day offensive against civilians in the Gaza Strip, PCHR calls upon the international community, especially the United Nations, the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention and the European Union – in the context of their natural obligation to respect and enforce the international law – to cooperate and act according to the following recommendations:

  1. PCHR calls upon the international community and the United Nations to use all available means to allow the Palestinian people to enjoy their right to self-determination, through the establishment of the Palestinian State, which was recognized by the UN General Assembly with a vast majority, using all international legal mechanisms, including sanctions to end the occupation of the State of Palestine;
  2. PCHR calls upon the United Nations to provide international protection to Palestinians in the oPt, and to ensure the non-recurrence of aggression against the oPt, especially the Gaza Strip;
  3. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to compel Israel, as a High Contracting Party to the Conventions, to apply the Conventions in the oPt;
  4. PCHR calls upon the Parties to international human rights instruments, especially the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to pressurize Israel to comply with their provisions in the oPt, and to compel it to incorporate the human rights situation in the oPt in its reports submitted to the concerned committees;
  5. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to fulfil their obligation to ensure the application of the Conventions, including extending the scope of their jurisdiction in order to prosecute suspected war criminals, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator and the place of a crime, to pave the way for prosecuting suspected Israeli war criminals and end the longstanding impunity they have enjoyed;
  6. PCHR calls on States that apply the principle of universal jurisdiction not to surrender to Israeli pressure to limit universal jurisdiction to perpetuate the impunity enjoyed by suspected Israeli war criminals;
  7. PCHR calls upon the international community to act in order to stop all Israeli settlement expansion activities in the oPt through imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements and criminalizing trading with them;
  8. PCHR calls upon the UN General Assembly to transfer the Goldstone Report to the UN Security Council in order to refer it to the International Criminal Court in accordance with Article 13(b) of the Rome Statute;
  9. PCHR calls upon the United Nations to confirm that holding war criminals in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a precondition to achieve stability and peace in the regions, and that peace cannot be built on the expense of human rights;
  10. PCHR calls upon the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council to explicitly declare that the Israeli closure policy in Gaza and the annexation wall in the West Bank are illegal, and accordingly refer the two issues to the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Israel to compel it to remove them;
  11. PCHR calls upon the international community, in light of its failure to the stop the aggression on the Palestinian people, to at least fulfil its obligation to reconstruct the Gaza Strip after the series of hostilities launched by Israel which directly targeted the civilian infrastructure;
  12. PCHR calls upon the United Nations and the European Union to express a clear position towards the annexation wall following the international recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, as the annexation wall seizes large parts of the State of Palestine;
  13. PCHR calls upon the European Union to activate Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which provides that both sides must respect human rights as a precondition for economic cooperation between the EU states and Israel, and the EU must not ignore Israeli violations and crimes against Palestinian civilians;

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Public Document

For further information please visit our website www.pchrgaza.org or contact PCHR’s office in Gaza City, Gaza Strip by email pchr@pchrgaza.org or telephone +972 08 282 4776 – 282 5893.

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American lawyers request investigation into the Jewish National Fund status

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The U.S. National Lawyers Guild (NLG) on Wednesday submitted a regulatory challenge to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting an investigation into the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on grounds of discrimination and contravention of U.S. policy.

According to the NLG, the JNF enjoys tax-exempt status as a charitable organization in the United States even though the reality of its work- supporting Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine – is anything but charitable.

The JNF’s mandate is to promote racist and discriminatory policies such as forcibly displacing Palestinians from their lands to make way for Jewish-only housing developments, including inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders.

The JNF’s support for illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem also means its activities violate longstanding official U.S. policies against settlements, as well as international law.

“The IRS has an obligation to revoke the JNF’s status because of its involvement in displacing Palestinian Bedouins from the Negev Desert and elsewhere, and because of its support for illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank,” said Andrew Dalack, one of the co-chairs of the NLGIC’s Palestine Subcommittee. “How can the IRS certify with a straight face that the JNF is organized for a charitable purpose when it engages in conduct that violates international law and well-established U.S. foreign policy?”

The regulatory challenge is part of a larger international Stop the JNF Campaign that seeks to end the JNF’s role in Israel’s continuing displacement of Palestinians.

Efforts targeting the JNF are part of a growing boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement in support of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice, and equality.

The campaign is calling for people to take part in Days of Action from March 30-April 18 (Tax Day) to pressure the IRS to respond to the regulatory challenge and launch an investigation into the JNF.

“The JNF is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and it is completely unacceptable that an organization engaging in war crimes is considered to be a charity in the United States,“ said Ramah Kudaimi of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. “It is also confusing how U.S. policy is clear about settlements being a primary obstacle to peace but Americans are allowed to give money to an organization that supports these very same settlements.”

Founded in 1901, the JNF is a quasi-governmental Israeli agency that has played a major role in the dispossession of the Palestinians people, planting forests to help cover the reality of the more than 400 Palestinian towns and villages destroyed when Israel was created in 1948.

Today the JNF continues to play an important role in the dispossession of Palestinians in both in the 48 territories -Israeland the in the occupied West Bank.

The complaint was filed on Land Day because on this day Palestinians commemorate the day in 1976 when the IOF killed six Palestinians who were peacefully protesting the appropriation of their land.

“For nearly 70 years Palestinians have been resisting Israel’s continued theft of our land,” said Nick Sous of the US Palestinian Community Network. “So many Palestinians have been directly impacted by Israel’s stealing their land with the support of the JNF and it is shameful that the IRS actually awards people who donate to support these illegal actions by allowing them to get a tax write-off.”

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US congressmen seek investigation of Israel's 'extrajudicial killings'

March 30, 2016 1:18 P.M. (Updated: March 31, 2016 10:37 A.M.)

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BETHLEHEM -- US Senator Patrick Leahy along with 10 other Democratic congressmen have called on the US to investigate the possibility of "gross violations of human rights" by Israel's and Egypt's security forces, including "extrajudicial killings."

Leahy, who has in the past sought a greater role for human rights in US foreign policy, made the request in a joint letter sent to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Feb. 17, suggesting that if the reports of rights violations should be proven, US military assistance should be cut off.

"There have been a disturbing number of reports of possible gross violations of human rights by security forces in Israel and Egypt -- incidents that may have involved recipients, or potential recipients, of US military assistance," the congressmen said in the letter published on Tuesday by Politico.

The letter cited findings by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations of "extrajudicial killings by the Israeli military and police of Fadi Alloun, Saad al-Atrash, Hadeel Hashlamoun, and Mutaz Ewisa," as well as several cases of torture.

"We urge you to determine if these reports are credible and to inform us of your findings," the congressmen said.

The letter went on to say they had received information that the usual mechanisms in determining the provision of US military assistance and monitoring its use had been "hindered" by a "unique situation" created since the Camp David Accords.

It suggested the US State Department and Department of Defense may be in breach of the Leahy Law -- a law named after the Vermont senator that prohibits the provision of military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.

If the reports were proven true, the congressmen said, the US should "take appropriate action called for under the law."

The letter also cited human rights violations carried out by the Egyptian army, including the 2013 massacre in Rabaa Square and a number of recently documented Egyptian "extrajudicial killings."

Every year, the US provides $3 billion worth of military assistance to Israel, and is currently negotiating a package for the next 10 years that is expected to see that amount increase. Hundreds of millions of dollars have also been provided to the Egyptian army since it toppled the nation's first democratically elected president in 2013.

The letter was sent before a soldier's gruesome killing of a wounded Palestinian in Hebron caused international outcry last week, an incident one senior UN official branded an "extrajudicial execution" and a "gruesome, immoral, and unjust act."

Israeli forces have faced repeated criticism for their excessive use of force against Palestinians since a wave of unrest swept Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory last October.

More than 200 Palestinians have now been shot dead by Israeli forces, some in clashes, the majority after they had been accused of attacking or attempting to attack Israelis, with nearly 30 Israelis killed in the same period.

However, human rights groups have repeatedly condemned Israeli forces for opening fire on Palestinians who posed no imminent danger, in killings they say amount to "extrajudicial executions."

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Israeli military bombs training camp; two children killed in their beds

At about 2:30 A.M. on 12 March 2016, Israeli air force planes made an air strike on the Gaza Strip. According to the IDF Spokesperson, the planes attacked a training camp belonging to the military branch of Hamas in the a-Sayfa area of Beit Lahiya, which is in the northern Gaza Strip. The attack was launched in retaliation for the firing of a rocket into Israel. No Hamas military branch operatives were injured in the attack.


The gaping hole in the roof of the Abu Khusah family home. Photo by Muhammad Sabah, B’Tselem, 12 March 2016.

The IDF Spokesperson failed to mention that the attack also hit the home of the Abu Khusah family, which is situated about 50 meters away from the base, alongside other homes. Their home was struck by a block of stone or concrete that, propelled by the force of the blast, went through the roof. The family of eight had been living in a makeshift shack constructed partially from tin and asbestos, after their home was destroyed some 18 months ago in Operation Protective Edge. Yasin, 9, was killed on the spot; his sister Israa, 6, died of her injuries later that day. Their brother Ayub, 12, sustained a minor head wound, and their 5-year-old sister Ikram suffered very slight injuries.

Salman Abu Khusah, 45, Yasin and Israa’s father, spoke with B’Tselem field researcher Muhammad Sabah and recounted the events of the night his children were killed:

On Friday, 11 March 2016, my six children were sleeping together in their room as usual. Everything was completely normal and I didn’t notice any particular problems. At about 2:30 A.M. I woke up and felt as if an earthquake was shaking the house. As soon as I opened my eyes I felt the dust, and then came debris and sand and I couldn’t see anything.

I heard the children shouting in the next room. I ran over immediately and saw them lying in their beds, covered in blood. I telephoned for an ambulance right away. I was in shock and couldn’t look at my children injured and covered in blood. After I called for an ambulance, I just stood there unable to do anything, not even to think. Some neighbors and relatives arrived and tried to give the children first aid. One neighbor took Yasin and another took Israa. Then an ambulance came and took Ayub, who is 12, and Ikram, who is 5, who were also injured.

I went to the Indonesian Hospital in the Tel a-Za’tar neighborhood in the east of Jabalya. Yasin was in very bad shape. After a few minutes he was pronounced dead of a serious head injury. Israa was transferred to the ICU at a-Shifaa Hospital in Gaza City. She had bleeding on the brain and was in critical condition. She was pronounced dead at midday.

Israel’s longstanding policy of air strikes on the Gaza Strip reflects decision makers’ inconceivable disregard for the lives of the people living there. Israel is duty-bound to do everything in its power to avoid injury to civilians. Yet despite repeated civilian fatalities and casualties, Israel refuses to change its policy and continues to adopt a distorted and far-reaching interpretation of the provisions of international humanitarian law in order to justify its position. This policy is unlawful and immoral.

In this instance, the attack was carried out in circumstances that were completely under Israel’s control, including the time and location of the strike. Accordingly, if there was in fact any justification for such an attack, other than its symbolic value, the military should have ensured that only the facility itself would be hit, and that civilians living in the vicinity – whose presence was or ought to have been known to those planning the strike – would come to no harm. Having failed to do so, the decision makers in both the military and political echelons bear liability for the children’s death.

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Uri Avnery's Column

What Happened to the Jews?

26/03/16


SUDDENLY I remembered where I had seen it before.

The same kind of face. The same chin thrust forward, to produce an impression of force and determination.

The same way of speaking. One sentence and then a pause, waiting for
the mob to shout approval.

The same combination of monster and clown.

Yes. Unmistakable. I saw it in my early childhood. On newsreels.

Benito Mussolini. Rome. Piazza Venezia. The Duce on a balcony, The huge mob down below in the piazza. Delirious. Applauding. Shouting until they were hoarse. A mass orgy of mindlessness.

This week I saw and heard it again. This time on TV.

THERE WERE differences, of course.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump was speaking in Washington DC, the modern successor to ancient Rome.

The Duce was bald, and therefore always wore a fanciful hat especially designed for him. The Trump wore his trademark orange hair, very carefully arranged by himself (according to his butler).

Mussolini spoke Italian, one of the world's most beautiful languages, even coming from the mouth of a dictator. Trump spoke American English, a language that even its most ardent admirers would not call melodious.

But the largest difference was the character of the audience. The Duce spoke to a Roman mob, a late successor to the ancient Roman plebs who, not far from there, had cried for blood in the arena.

Trump spoke – unbelievably! – to an assembly of mostly elderly, wealthy and well educated Jews.

Jews, for God's sake! People who secretly believe that they are the most intelligent on earth! Delirious Jews, shouting, clapping, jumping up and down after every sentence, as if possessed.

WHAT HAS happened to these Jews?

It's a sad story. During World War II, when the Holocaust was in full swing, American Jews kept quiet. They did not use their already considerable political might to induce the President to do something significant to save the Jews. They were cowed. They were afraid of being accused of war mongering.

Once somebody brought me a Nazi leaflet dropped by the German Luftwaffe over American lines in Italy. It showed a fat, ugly Jew embracing a blond American girl. It said something like: "While you are shedding your blood here, the rich Jew at home is seducing your girlfriend!"

The Jews were afraid to do anything that could be seen as a confirmation of the Nazi propaganda slogan that this was a war instigated by the Jews and their stooge, "President Rosenfeld", to destroy the Aryan race. So they kept quiet.

These Jews had come to America one or two generations earlier. The victims of the Holocaust were their close relatives. The remorse for their inactivity during the Holocaust is haunting them – especially the elderly among them - to this very day.

Their blind allegiance to the "Jewish State" is a result of this remorse. Many American Jews – especially the elderly – feel more attached to Israel than to the US. The British slogan "My country, right or wrong" is applied by them to Israel.

This was the audience of Trump at the AIPAC mass meeting.

AIPAC IS the embodiment of Jewish might and Jewish complexes.

In a way, it is the late actualization of that famous Russian forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", about the Jews ruling the world. By many accounts, it is the second most powerful lobby in the US (after the lobby of the gun crazies).

How did a small political organization, some 60 years ago, reach these dizzy heights? The Jews are far from being the most numerous ethnic community in the US. But, as a result of the inbuilt fear of anti-Semitism, they stick together. And, far more importantly, they donate money. Lots and lots of money. In both respects, they outdo much larger communities, like the Arab one.

The American political process, once the envy of democrats around the world, is by now basically corrupt. Political advertising is both necessary and expensive. Anyone running for office needs heaps of money. Looking for money is now the main job of an American politician.

In today's America, almost every politician can be bought. Literally. So can entire party organizations. The sums are not even very impressive. AIPAC has pushed this corruption to a climax.

To demonstrate their power, AIPAC has produced some glaring examples. They are not satisfied with denying money to politicians that have criticized Israel in any way. They have actively put an end to the political careers of critics by taking competing nobodies, stuffing them with money and getting them elected in their place.

If there were such a thing as political terrorism, AIPAC would take the crown.

WHAT IS this immense power used for?

The Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote an article this week that shocked many, claiming that AIPAC is in fact an anti-Israeli organization. If I had written that article, it would have been even more extreme.

If, God forbid, the State of Israel does not survive the next 100 years, historians will put a lot of the blame on American Jewry, headed by AIPAC.

Since 1967, Israel has faced a simple but fateful choice: Give up the occupied Palestinian territories and make peace with Palestine and the entire Arab and Muslim world – or cling to the territories, build settlements and go on with an endless war.

This is not a political opinion. It is a historical fact.

Any true friend of Israel will do everything possible to push Israel in the first direction. Every dollar, every ounce of political influence, should be used for this purpose. In the end, the two states - Israel and Palestine - will live side by side, perhaps in some kind of confederation.

An anti-Semite pushes Israel in the other direction. Within the next 100 years Israel would turn into a bigoted, nationalist, even fascist, isolated apartheid state with a growing Arab majority, and the entire country would eventually become an Arab state with a shrinking Jewish minority.

Everything else is a pipedream.

SO WHAT is AIPAC doing?

In his monumental work "Faust", Goethe describes the devil, Mephisto, as a force that always wills the bad and always achieves the good. AIPAC is the exact opposite.

It supports the existence of a “Jewish State” but pushes it forcefully along the road to another of the huge disasters in Jewish history.

They have an excuse, of course: it's the Israelis themselves who have chosen this course. AIPAC only supports whoever the Israelis elect in democratic elections. Israel is the Only Democracy in the Middle East.

Nonsense. AIPAC and its sister groups are deeply involved in Israeli elections. They support Binyamin Netanyahu, the far-far-right Prime Minister, and the entire ultra-right spectrum of Israeli parties.

Perhaps I should put the blame on American Jewry in general. It's not just AIPAC, but millions of other Jews. They all support Israel, wrong or worse.

But that may be out of date. I am told that a new generation of Jews in America is turning their backs on Israel altogether, even supporting Israel-haters. That would be a pity. They could play a role in resurrecting the Israeli peace camp instead, doing their bit for an enlightened Israel, upholding the old Jewish values of peace and justice.

I don't see that happening. What I see is young and progressive American Jews quietly disappearing from the stage, leaving it to the new American Mussolini and his delirious, shouting up-and-down-jumping Jews.

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31 mars 2016 4 31 /03 /mars /2016 02:39

After being rejected by Brazil, Dani Dayan is placed in New York

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After being rejected to be Israel’s next ambassador to Brazil, Dani Dayan will replace Ido Aharoni, who has served as consul-general in New York since February 2011, in New York, US.

According to the Jpost, Dayan said that an important role in thwarting the Brasilia post was played by the “Israeli branch of BDS,” who lobbied Brazilian diplomats and politicians against his appointment.

He added that when Netanyahu appointed him in August last year as envoy to Brazil, he actually wanted to be sent to New York, either as UN ambassador, or as consul-general. Danny Danon received the UN position.

On Twitter, Dayan post a message saying he will maintain an open and inclusive dialogue with all parts of the general and Jewish communities in New York. “No exclusions,” he wrote. “I intend to reach out to Orthodox & Reforms, Liberals & Conservatives, Republicans & Democrats.”

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely praised the Dayan’s appointment to New York, and said that sending him to one of the most strategic posts in the U.S. sends a message to the world that Israel stands behind Dayan as a worthy representative of the Jewish state.

Dayan himself is a settler, living in the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Shomron in the northern occupied West Bank. He immigrated to Israel from Argentina as a teenager, and made his professional start as the founder of an IT company.

Dayan is best known as the most successful advocate for Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories. He worked for the settler public relations firm, the Yesha Council, for 13 years years, of which the last five he severed as the group’s chairman before stepping down to begin a term as a foreign media advisor to Netanyahu.

Last year, Brazil rejected Dayan’s nomination as Israel’s next ambassador to that country, causing a diplomatic crisis between the two governments.

At that time, one of the Brazilian government’s main critics over Israel’s choice was that Netanyahu skipped all diplomatic protocols when announced Dayan’s appointment: it was not preceded by any communication with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry nor any presentation of his credentials for an agreement.

Furthermore, Brazil also did not see with good eyes the fact that Dayan is the former head of the Yesha Council, a representative body of illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, which Brazil considers as illegal and an impediment to the creation of a future Palestinian state.

On January 8, a group of 40 retired Brazilian diplomats signed a statement against it, re -stating discontentment with the way he was announced and with his role in the settlement movement.

According to U.S. state department policy, America also views Israel’s settlements in occupied Palestinian territory illegal under international law.

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Israël renonce à une figure de la colonisation pour son ambassade au Brésil

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28/03/2016

Israël a fini lundi par renoncer à faire de Danny Dayan, figure de la colonisation, son nouvel ambassadeur au Brésil après un bras de fer de plusieurs mois avec Brasilia.

Le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, également détenteur du portefeuille des Affaires étrangères, a "décidé de nommer Danny Dayan consul général à New York", a annoncé le gouvernement dans un communiqué.

Un nouvel appel à candidatures pour le poste d'ambassadeur au Brésil devrait à présent être lancé, a indiqué une source diplomatique israélienne.

La nomination de Danny Dayan comme chef de la mission diplomatique israélienne à Brasilia était dans l'impasse depuis qu'elle avait été décidée à l'été 2015. Elle avait encore donné lieu mi-mars à un imbroglio rare quand Israël avait annoncé renoncer à ce choix, puis le maintenir.

Sans porter la querelle sur la place publique, Brasilia refusait le choix de cet entrepreneur d'origine argentine, qui a dirigé entre 2007 et 2013 le Conseil de Yesha, principale organisation de colons dans les territoires palestiniens occupés. Danny Dayan vit en Cisjordanie occupée et est opposé à la création d'un Etat palestinien.

La colonisation, illégale aux yeux de la communauté internationale, est considérée comme un obstacle majeur à la création d'un Etat palestinien et à la paix. Le Brésil a reconnu l'État palestinien en 2010 et manifesté à plusieurs reprises son soutien à la cause des Palestiniens, en conflit avec Israël depuis des décennies et toujours dans l'attente d'un Etat indépendant.

Le Brésil avait rappelé son ambassadeur en Israël en 2014 pour protester contre "l'usage disproportionné de la force" fait selon lui par l'armée israélienne lors de la guerre dans la bande de Gaza.
La ministre adjointe des Affaires étrangères israélienne, Tzipi Hotovely, avait déclaré en février que le ministère emploierait "tous les moyens à sa disposition pour faire valider la nomination de Danny Dayan".

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West Bank settlers form military unit to terrorize Bedouin communities

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A group of Israeli settlers all over the occupied West Bank have recently formed a military unit specialized in terrorizing and attacking the Bedouin Palestinians living in communities nearby the illegal settlements.

Head of the Popular Committees for protecting the Bedouins, Jamil Hamadin, said that the Israeli army announced forming a unit which gathered a number of settlers from different West Bank settlements, to monitor the Bedouin communities at the roadside between Ma’aleh Adummim settlement and Jericho.

The unit was given the green light to interfere in the Bedouin communities, under claims that Bedouins are illegally residing in that area.

Hamadin said that this is a dangerous move which will escalate Israeli violations against the Bedouin Palestinians who should be immediately protected, and protection should include their lives, property, livestock, in addition to freedom of movement, water and electricity services.

Bedouin Palestinians in the C area of the West Bank, which makes up to 60% of its land and falls under Israeli military and civil administration, have been subjected to Israeli violations for tens of years now.

The communities, especially near Jericho, East Jerusalem and southern Hebron hills have been facing continuous demolitions and displacement threats, while illegal Israeli settlers have the full access to civil rights, housing and education.

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Israeli authorities demolish homes in Khirbet Tana for third time this year, leaving 85 people homeless, including 30 children

On Wednesday, 23 March 2016, Civil Administration and military forces came to Khirbet Tana to the east of Beit Furik and demolished 17 homes, 21 livestock pens, and five outhouses.

The forces also blocked the entrances to five caves, demolished a water reservoir built with the assistance of a Palestinian association, and confiscated four cars belonging to residents on the grounds that they did not have a valid license.

This is the third demolition operation in the village since the beginning of 2016. The previous demolitions were undertaken on 9 February 2016 and 2 March 2016.

Six of the residential tents that were demolished were donated by an international humanitarian aid organization to families whose homes were demolished by the Civil Administration and the military on 2 March, while two of the outhouses demolished were donated by the European Union.

The acts of destruction left 85 people homeless, including 30 minors.

24 Mar 2016

Israeli authorities again demolish structures in two Masafer Yatta communities (Firing Zone 918)

On 22 March 2016, Civil Administration and military forces came to the communities of Khirbet Jenbah and a-Taban in Masafer Yatta, in the area the military has declared Firing Zone 918. In Khirbet Jenbah, the forces demolished a tent that was home to a family of six people, including four minors.

The tent was donated to the family by an international humanitarian aid organization.

The forces also demolished two livestock pens belonging to the family and confiscated a solar panel donated by an international humanitarian aid organization.

The forces then continued to the community of Khirbet a-Taban, where they demolished another livestock pen.

These structures were apparently not included in the orders prohibiting the demolition of additional structures in the communities.

These orders were issued in February following petitions submitted by residents of the communities after demolitions undertaken by the authorities in the communities of Khirbet Jenbah and Khirbet al-Halawah on 2 Feb. 2016, when 22 dwellings in both communities were demolished.

The latest demolitions in the two communities were carried out a day before the hearing held by the High Court of Justice (HCJ) on 23 March 2016 in a principled petition submitted by the residents of Masafer Yatta, after a mediation process between the residents and the state ended without agreements.

The residents are opposing the authorities’ attempts to expel them from their land after declaring it a firing zone.

Civil Administration bulldozer demolishing a residential structure in Khirbet Jenbah in Masafer Yatta, 22 March 2016. Photo: Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem.

22 Mar 2016

Demolitions taking place right now in Khirbet Jenba

The Israeli Civil Administration is demolishing structures in Khirbet Jenba, in the Masafer Yatta area of the Southern Hebron Hills. More info as we receive it.

The residents view this move as a message from the authorities in the run up to tomorrow's high court hearing in their general petition against the attempt to forcibly transfer them from their land through the declaration of the area as "Firing Zone 918"

Civil Administration forces remove solar panel in Khirbet Jenbah this morning. Photo: Nasser Nawaj'ah, B'Tselem.

8 Mar 2016

Demolition spree carries on across West Bank; 435 people, incl. 234 minors, have lost their homes since Jan. 2016

In the first week of March, authorities demolished 17 dwellings, 19 livestock pens, and a school in two Jordan Valley communities, rendering 64 people - incl. 28 minors - homeless.

These actions are a direct continuation of the unusually massive demolition campaign authorities launched in Palestinian shepherding communities across the West Bank.

Since Jan., authorities have dismantled and demolished 203 structures, including 105 dwellings, in communities threatened with expulsion; 435 people, including 234 minors, lost their homes.

This consistently applied government policy constitutes the forced transfer of protected Palestinian residents in an occupied area.

Residents of Khirbet Tana near entrance to residential cave demolished by the authorities. Photo by Abdulkarim Sadi, B’Tselem, 2 Mar. 2016

29 Feb 2016

Israel’s Civil Administration demolishes four families’ homes in Jordan Valley

This morning, 29 February 2016, Civil Administration (CA) and military personnel arrived at the community of Khallet Khader in the region of al-Farisiyah in the northern Jordan Valley.

They demolished five dwelling tents, which were home to 19 people, including five minors.

They also demolished three livestock pens in use by Khallet Khader families.

The tents had been given to the families by the Red Cross after the CA demolished 21 structures in the community on 11 February 2016.

The community of Khallet Khader is located in the region of al-Farisiyah, which the military had termed a firing zone, and near the settlements of Shadmot-Mehola and Rotem.

The community’s residents are farmers and they raise goats and sheep. Some families live on site only for certain seasons of the year.

Residents at Khallet Khader this morning. Photo by ‘Araf Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 29 Feb. 2016

25 Feb 2016

Demolition campaign continues: Civil Administration and military demolish additional structures in two communities

Additional demolitions since we reported the early 2016 demolition campaign:

On Feb. 20, Israeli authorities confiscated two large caravans used for expanding the Abu a-Nuwar school, where some children study in other communities due to overcrowding.

On Feb. 15, 32 structures, including 10 homes were demolished in Ein a-Rashash, leaving dozens homeless.

These demolitions and confiscations are part of an unusually massive demolition campaign the Israeli authorities launched in Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank in Jan. 2016.

Children at the school yard where the Civil Administration earlier confiscated caravans. The settlement Ma'aleh Adumim appears in the background. Photo: Mus'ab Abbas, B'Tselem, 23.2.2016

16 Feb 2016

New wave of demolitions in West Bank: Another phase in policy of expelling Palestinians from vast portions of West Bank

As of Jan. 2016 Israeli authorities stepped up efforts to expel Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills, Ma’ale Adumim area and the Jordan Valley, demolishing 73 homes and 51 other structures, some donated by aid agencies.

Israel recently announced plans to demolish many more structures in Kh. Susiya, expel Abu a-Nuwar’s residents, and reported its failed mediation with Masafer Yatta.

All are part of a policy whereby Area C is to serve Israel rather than West Bank Palestinians.

Restrictions Israel imposes in Area C force all West Bank Palestinians to live in crowded enclaves without land reserves for building, farming, infrastructure, health and education services or freedom of movement.

Toddler against background of ruins in Khirbet al-Halawah, Masafer Yatta. Photo by Hagai El-Ad, B’Tselem, 4 Feb. 2016

11 Feb 2016

In a three-day demolition campaign in the Jordan Valley, the authorities left 59 people, including 28 minors, homeless

Over three days during the past week, the authorities demolished 22 dwellings in the Jordan Valley, along with 41 other structures used for storage and livestock, leaving 59 people, including 28 minors without a roof over their heads.

Stranded UN vehicle on razed access road to Khirbet ‘Ein Karzaliyah. Photo by ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 10 February 2016.

9 Feb 2016

Israeli military trains, fires shells near homes of Kh. a-Ras al-Ahmar, northern Jordan Valley

In mid-Jan, 24 Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley were informed they would be temporarily displaced at month’s end for military training in the area.

The evacuation was cancelled due to weather conditions, but the military did conduct training very close to one community, causing panic among residents, especially children, and crushing crops.

Military training in the Jordan Valley is illegal. Israel must immediately stop it and all other measures employed in an attempt to force Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley out of the area.

Military tanks in fields cultivated by the community. Photo by ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B'Tselem, 27 Jan. 2016

4 Feb 2016

Another day in Area C: Israeli demolitions in two Palestinian communities leave 27 homeless

On Thursday morning, 4 February 2016, Civil Administration (CA) officials came to the Palestinian shepherding community of al-Mkassar in the northern Jordan Valley with bulldozers and a military escort.

They proceeded to demolish four tents that were home to two families – a total of 19 people, including 12 minors. They also demolished eight livestock pens.

These families had already lost their homes in a previous demolition in June 2015.

Later that the day, around noon, CA and military forces came to the Palestinian community of Khirbet Susiya in the South Hebron Hills, where they dismantled and confiscated two tents that were home to a family of eight, including six minors.

The tents were donated to the family after their two previous tents were demolished about two weeks ago, on 20 January 2016.

Civil Administration bulldozer razing a livestock pen in al-Mkassar in the northern Jordan Valley. Photo: ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 4 February 2016

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